California's Green Exception
(subscriber content : "California's environmental laws have made
industrial development increasingly difficult -- to the extent that they
are now interfering with other green priorities. Witness the request by
the state's High-Speed Rail Authority to seek a legislative waiver
against green lawsuits, of all things.")
Wall Street Journal

Reforming The Buddy System ("How should the federal-state partnership on infrastructure projects be structured? Is a performance-based system all that's needed? Or do states need much more oversight? Can they get by with less? Is it time for some grand reform of the federal-state relationship or will tweaks suffice?")
National Journal Transportation Experts Blog

Series Links Transportation Infrastructure Decisions And Public Health
Mobilizing The RegionDesigning Healthy Communities ("A provocative new 4-hour series...looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression. Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis by looking upstream for innovative solutions.")
PBS

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The Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA or Metro), 1895 to the present, is the largest transit operator research collection in the US.

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The Transportation Headlines is a daily journal of transit, transportation, and urban planning information collected from local, regional, and national web sources, published by the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) or "Metro".

Blog entries represent the author's aggregation of web-based news and information for a particular day. This blog does not represent the official position or point of view of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, also known as Metro.